User Guide

Chapter 22 EVB3 327
MIDI Mode
This parameter allows you to define how the drawbar settings will respond to remote
MIDI control change messages. Normally, you won’t need to change anything here. If
you own a MIDI drawbar organ, however, you’ll probably want to use its hardware
drawbars to control the EVB3. Most hardware drawbar organs utilize an independent
control change number for every drawbar. Some models allow you to freely define
these control change numbers. Lists of control change number assignments for the
following MIDI Modes can be found in “MIDI Controller Assignments” on page 348.
If you set the MIDI Mode menu to RK, every drawbar responds to a specific MIDI control
change number, commencing with CC #70. (Non-drawbar parameters may be set using
control change messages up to CC #118).
If you choose HS in the MIDI Mode menu, all of the EVB3 drawbars will be controlled by
just a few control change numbers—CC #80–82. Its values are intelligently mapped to
all drawbars. The resolution of this technique is not particularly high (much like the
original B3), but it works well. The Hammond-Suzuki XB-2 uses this controller
assignment method, allowing you to remotely control the EVB3’s drawbars. In addition
to the drawbar support, you can use the following controls of the Hammond Suzuki
XB-1, XK-2, and XK-3 to remotely control your EVB3:
 Leslie: Brake/On/Fast
 Vibrato and Chorus
 Percussion (2nd/3rd/soft/fast)
A lists of all control change number assignments can be found on page 351.
If you set MIDI Mode to NI, the Native Instruments B4 settings will be replicated,
allowing the use of the Native Instruments B4D Drawbar controller.
If you set MIDI Mode to NE, the EVB3 will be able to respond to control change
messages from Clavia’s Nord Electro II keyboard.
If you set MIDI Mode to off, the EVB3 will not respond to MIDI drawbar messages.
Note: Before you commence a recording session with drawbar movements, performed
on a hardware organ and the EVB3 set to MIDI Mode HS, you should disable MIDI Data
Reduction in Logic Pro. The parameter is located in File > Project Settings > Recording.
The function thins out the incoming data stream, which is hardly ever noticed with
normal controller assignments. The controller mapping of the Hammond XB-2’s
drawbars, however, exploits the controllers to their limits. Therefore, MIDI Data
Reduction can lead to incorrect values. Switch the parameter on after the drawbar
recording session, in order to regain memory and processing resources.